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  <info>&lt;strong&gt; Alexandre Frey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Commercial Fashion Portrait Photographer

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:"&gt;info@alexandrefrey.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(+84)01 28 52 70 244&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;


&lt;strong&gt;Short Bio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm half Vietnamese and half Sicilian. I was born in South America then I went to France &lt;br /&gt;when I reached the age of 14.
Since the very beginning I was passionate about Arts: &lt;br /&gt;first with drawing, then watercolor, then oil painting, and finally photography in my early 20's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
So I followed my passion I attended Fine Art School in France to study traditional Arts &lt;br /&gt;and Graphic Design;
then I went to Belgium to complete my studies in Digital Art School &lt;br /&gt;where I could translate what I learned to the Digital world.

It was then in Brussels &lt;br /&gt;when Photography took a definitive turn when I got to work with worldwide renown photographers;&lt;br /&gt; 
(Bruno Dayan, Peter de Mulder, Peter Lindbergh...) learning commercial photography as assistant &lt;br /&gt;and retoucher with the bests and finally making a career as a freelancer photographer in fashion &lt;br /&gt;and beauty in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

At a personal level, my photography emerges from an creative process where pressing the button &lt;br /&gt;is not everything: Ideas are first born from pencil and paper, composed through the lens,&lt;br /&gt;refined with lightings then finally to the digital lab where images comes to life.
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&lt;strong&gt;My Vietnam Story:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

I started out in 2009 as Art Director for &lt;strong&gt;Connexus Corporation&lt;/strong&gt;, making illustrations &lt;br /&gt;and crazy graphics for online contents.
Then in 2010 I moved to the advertising world &lt;br /&gt;as Art Director for &lt;strong&gt;Ogilvy &amp;amp; Mather&lt;/strong&gt;, with campaigns such as Dove, Vietnam Airlines, &lt;br /&gt;and Sony etc.&lt;br /&gt;In 2011, I decided it was time to move back to Fashion and Photography: &lt;br /&gt;so I started to shoot fashion and
Beauty spreads for &lt;strong&gt;Elle VN&lt;/strong&gt;, then I was proposed to join in &lt;br /&gt;as Photo Editor, and quickly moved to the position of the magazine's Art Director.&lt;br /&gt;
As a matter of fact, my life has always been made of explorations and challenges of all kind; &lt;br /&gt;but at the end it all gravitates around what I'm passionate about: which is creating images.</info>
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